History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. 8 (of 8)Merle d'Aubigné, J. H. (Jean Henri)
History
History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. 8 (of 8)
Merle d'Aubigné, J. H. (Jean Henri)
Reformation
_Bonivard_, Francis, his arrival at Geneva, i. 46;
birth and education, 46;
friendship with Berthelier, 47, 50, 57;
rejects proposal made to him to seize Levrier, 63, 64;
warns him, 64;
his character, 67;
fascinates Berthelier, 67;
their intercourse and aims, 67, 68;
his difference with the bishop, 72, 76, 80, 83, 96;
attempts to save Pécolat, 98;
resolves to 'bell the cat,' 100;
gets inhibition of the metropolitan served on the bishop, 100;
his advice to Pécolat's friends, 103, 104;
goes to Rome, 117;
what he saw there, 118;
fails in his suit for bishopric, 120;
warned of danger at Turin, 121;
his flight, 121;
discouraged, 131, 134, 143, 151, 153;
his speech in chapter, 157;
his protest, 159;
pacifies the people threatening the canons, 160, 161, 168, 169;
escapes from Geneva, 173, 175;
betrayed, 185;
compelled to resign his priory, 186;
imprisoned by the duke, 186, 191, 199;
set at liberty, 211, 245, 255, 264;
his estimate of La Baume, 265;
restored to his priory, 314;
advocates expulsion of the prince-bishop, ii. 329, 334, 336;
detested by papal party, 348;
threatened with expulsion from his priory, 348;
his estimate of excommunication, 349;
reflections on state of Geneva, 352, 353;
his reply to proposal of Huguenots, 354;
his fief at Cartigny, 358;
maintains reciprocity of rights between prince and subject, 358;
obtains support of the council to his claim, 359;
takes possession of Cartigny, 360;
loses it, 360;
his expedition to recover it, 360;
his grass mown by Pontverre, 371;
among the Lutherans, 385;
his raids to recover his rents, 401;
fires at the papal proctor, 401;
illness of his mother, 402;
obtains safe-conduct to visit her, 403;
at Seyssel, 403;
slandered at Geneva, 403;
perplexity, 404;
safe-conduct extended, 405;
proposes to give up his priory, 405;
at Moudon, 406;
journey to Lausanne, 406;
kidnapped, 407;
imprisoned at Chillon, 408;
treatment, 408;
liberation of, demanded and refused, 432;
incidents of his confinement, v. 399;
orders given for his death, 400;
liberated, 401;
made free of city of Geneva, marries, 416;
a prediction fulfilled, 417, 418
_Bonivard_, Jean Aimé, prior of St. Victor, i. 46;
orders his culverins to be cast into church bells, 47;
his death, 47
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